Cain and Abel make offerings. Genesis cap 4 vv 3-7. De Vos Wikimedia When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain cultivated the ground. When it was time for the harvest, Cain presented some of his crops as a gift to the Lord. Abel...

Landscape of Paradise and the Loading of the Animals in Noah’s Ark By Jan Brueghel the Elder – Sotheby’s, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7792047 (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four) As it was in the Days of Noah In...

Noah’s Ark by Chris Light By Chris Light – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57301804 Genesis 9 within the Greater Bible Story ( Part One, Part Two, Part Three) The story of the Flood is foundational to...

Part Three Violence and Shalom ( Part One, Part Two) While God does accommodate to human weakness and at times allows limited forms of violence, his heart is always for non-violence and his ideal of shalom represented in the first two chapters of Genesis, and...

Part Two The Concession of Meat-Eating (For Part One go here) After the Flood has destroyed all of humanity and the animal creation, apart from those within the ark, Noah offers sacrifices of clean animals to God. Much has been made of the words immediately after...